REPORT OF MR. R. ROBERTSON 



241 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



TURNIPS TEST OP VARIETIES, 



No. 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



II 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



22 



23 



24 



25 



26 



27 



28 



29 



30 



31 



Name of Variety. 



Sutton's ('liamijion 



Elephant's Master 



Magnum Bonum 



Giant Kuig 



Perfection Swede 



Prize Purple Top 



Carter's Elephant 



Hall's Westbury 



Good Luck 



Kangaroo . 



Drummond's Purple Top. 

 West Norfolk Red Top. . . 



Hartley's Bronze 



Bangholm Selected 



Shamrock Purple Top. . . . 



New Arctic . 



Halewood's Bronze Top . . 



Champion Purple Top 



Imperial Swede 



Selected Purple Top 



Selected Champion 



Marquis of Lome 



Mammoth Clyde . . 



Prize Winner 



Emperor Swede 



East Lothian 



Skirving's . . 



Monarch 



New Century 



Webb's New Renown 



Jumbo 



Yield per 



Acre. 

 1st P1l<. 



Tons. Lbs. 



50 

 49 

 47 

 47 

 40 

 46 

 45 

 45 

 45 

 45 

 44 

 44 

 43 

 42 

 42 

 42 

 42 

 41 

 41 

 41 

 41 

 40 

 40 

 38 

 38 

 38 

 37 

 36 

 36 

 35 

 34 



155 



1,000 



380 



50 



1,5^5 



400 



1,905 



750 



750 



255 



1,430 



605 



625 



1,800 



1,305 



1,140 



975 



1,655 



830 



500 



5 



1,675 



25 



1,055 



725 



230 



1,900 



1,425 



600 



125 



805 



Yield per 



Acre. 

 1st Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



1,609 

 1,650 

 1,573 

 1,567 

 1,559 

 1,540 

 1.531 

 1,512 

 1,512 

 1,504 

 1,490 

 1,470 

 1,443 

 1,430 

 1,421 

 1,419 

 1,410 

 1,394 

 1,380 

 1,375 

 1,366 

 1,361 

 1,333 

 1,284 

 1,278 

 1,270 

 1,265 

 1,223 

 1,210 

 1,168 

 1,146 



15 



30 

 15 



45 

 30 

 30 

 15 

 30 

 45 

 45 



45 



15 

 15 

 30 



45 

 15 

 45 

 15 

 45 

 30 



45 



45 

 45 



Yield per 



Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



Tons. Lbs. 



42 

 38 

 37 

 34 

 38 

 38 

 30 

 37 

 34 

 34 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 36 

 30 

 31 

 36 

 37 

 31 

 31 

 34 

 32 

 28 

 29 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 27 

 29 

 27 

 27 



975 



1,550 



250 



1,795 



395 



1,055 



1,525 



1,075 



475 



475 



125 



950 



455 



1,755 



600 



700 



1,425 



1,405 



1,855 



205 



1,300 



350 



1,750 



905 



1,750 



100 



1,750 



1,275 



475 



450 



1,275 



Yif-ld per 



Acre. 

 2nd Plot. 



Bush. Lbs. 



1,416 

 1,292 

 1,237 

 1,103 

 1,273 

 1,284 

 1,058 

 1,251 

 1,141 

 1,141 

 1,108 

 1,182 

 1,174 

 1,229 

 1,210 

 1,045 

 1,223 

 1,256 

 1,004 



i,o;jG 



1,155 

 1,072 

 902 

 981 

 902 

 935 

 902 

 921 

 974 

 907 

 921 



15 

 30 

 30 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 45 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 45 

 30 



45 

 45 

 15 

 45 



30 

 30 

 45 

 30 



30 

 15 

 35 

 30 

 15 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANGELS. 



Tlie land on which the mangels were grown was adjoining the turnip plots and 

 received the same treatment in every respect. 



The ground was run into rows 24 inches apart. The rows were raked off and the 

 seed sown in holes one foot apart, made with a marker, and from four to ei^ht seeds 

 were dropped in each place. These were covered with a garden rake. The plants came 

 up well and made splendid growth. 



The seed was sown INIay 20, and duplicate plots were sown two weeks later, June 

 3. The crop was pulled October 28, and the yield calculated from 2 rows each GG feet 

 long. 



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